In fact, Ma Jinzhong was very resistant to surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, but he had to bow his head under the roof. Therefore, he first pretended to agree to Zuo Menggeng, saying that he was willing to follow the young master to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and then look for an opportunity to escape.

In the original historical time and space, Ma Jinzhong did this. When Zuo Menggeng surrendered to Ajige, Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng first pretended to surrender to the Qing army, and then when transporting cannons to the Qing army, they threw the cannons of the Qing army into the river. The two of them ran to Yuezhou with their soldiers and returned to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty again.

But later, Ma Jinzhong and Feng Shuangli obeyed Sun Kewang's secret orders and undermined Li Dingguo. Sun Kewang later appointed Ma Jinzhong as King of Jiading, allowing Ma Jinzhong to be the vanguard of internal strife. However, Ma Jinzhong was not convinced by Sun Kewang, and later turned against him and was named King of Hanyang by Yongli. Not long after, Ma Jinzhong died of illness and his son Ma Zhide surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Zuo Menggeng didn't know what Ma Jinzhong thought, so he saw that he gave in, so he patted his shoulder: "That's right. Today, the Qing Dynasty is the one who has the strongest power in the Qing Dynasty and will eventually unify the country. It is necessary to surrender to the Qing Dynasty as early as possible. It is still time to go now. We will have endless wealth and glory in the past. If we go too late and have been eaten by others, we will not even have to drink soup."

"Thank you for your support!" Ma Jinzhong pretended to kneel down and thanked him.

After 49 days, Zuo Liangyu's seventh seventh passed. Zuo Menggeng was about to order the entire army to go to war and abandon Wuchang. He carried Zuo Liangyu's coffin to march north, and prepared to go to Luoyang, Henan to surrender to the Qing army.

At the gate of Ningnan Bo Mansion, Zuo Menggeng, dressed in plain clothes, stood on the steps at the gate. Looking at the general of the Zuo Family Army standing in front of him, he looked around and shouted: "Dear brothers of my father, and I am also my Zuo Menggeng's uncle and uncle! Do you know what happened to Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing? The court's Eagle Claw Sun killed Liu Liangzuo for no reason and forced Liu Zeqing away. There are only two towns left in the four towns in Jiangbei. A few days ago, another major event happened. Xingping Bo Gao Jie was unfortunately killed in Suizhou. The Eagle Claw Sun of the Eagle Claw took the opportunity to eat the Gao Family Army in one bite!"

Zuo Menggeng paused and continued, "It's really ridiculous! Zhao Peng's eunuch, but Gao Yuanzhao was seven years older than Gao Yuanzhao, actually recognized Gao Yuanzhao as his adopted son. It's ridiculous! This is obviously an excuse to annex the Gao family army! I am afraid that one day the eunuch will come to my house and I want Zuo Menggeng to be his adopted son. What should I do? Should I be obediently as his adopted son?"

"Young master, what should I do?" asked Li Guoying, who was standing in the first row.

Zuo Menggeng shouted loudly: "Since the Ming Dynasty valued the eunuch party, it is unrighteous to us, then don't blame Zuo for betraying the Ming Dynasty! Dear uncles and uncles, this young master has followed his father's will to escort his father's coffin back to Linqing, and you all happened to follow the young master to the north. Now the Qing Dynasty in the north is on the occasion of employment. In my Ming Dynasty, the civil servants are riding on our heads to shit and pee. Now, even the Jinyiwei rode on our heads! And on the Qing Dynasty, military pay is never owed. The soldiers are fed with silver, and they will break through the city, and the robbery will belong to their own personal belongs! If you join the Qing Dynasty, I guarantee you a bright future!"

"We are willing to follow the young master to join the Qing Dynasty!" General Zuo's generals shouted in unison.

Ma Jinzhong expressed his doubts: "Young Master, why did the last general hear that in the Qing Dynasty, the status of the Green Camp military generals was not higher than that of the Han civil servants. The highest status was the generals of the Manchu Eight Banners Army, then the Mongolian Eight Banners Generals, then the Han civil servants, and finally it was the generals of the Green Camp."

Zuo Menggeng didn't know how to answer, and at this moment, Huang Shu helped him to clear the siege: "General Ma doesn't know anything. There are still flag-carrying flags in the Qing Dynasty. Once he makes military achievements, he can carry the flag from the green camp and enter the Han military flag. In that way, our status will be higher than that of civil officials, and we will no longer have to look at the faces of those Han dog civil officials."

In fact, Huang Shu himself said that civil servants were helping Zuo Menggeng come up with ideas and even told the civil servants that they were Hangou civil servants. Hou Fangyu interrupted from the side: "Everyone is the future pillar of the Qing Dynasty. Now, the great clearance of the thieves requires manpower, and fighting for the world also requires manpower. As long as you follow the prince, you will definitely have a bright future! Huang Tui has contacts with the Qing Dynasty. He is very clear about the situation on the Qing Dynasty. Everyone believes that we are all. I promise that if you go there, you will definitely enjoy endless wealth and glory."

Wang Yuncheng raised another question: "Young Master, but I heard that our soldiers went there and we had to shave our hair and change our clothes. Could this be the case?"

Hou Fangyu helped Zuo Menggeng replied: "General Wang, it is true that shaving your hair and dressing is easy, but think about it, is hair important or silver important? After going there, you can't enjoy all the glory and wealth. What's the point of hair compared to the endless money you spend?"

Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng were very despised Huang Shu and Hou Fangyu. They were very despised by their parents. They dare not hurt them. In fact, for warriors, they did not pay special attention to this, but literary men especially liked these. Especially Hou Gongzi Hou Fangyu, this little white face looks quite handsome, with a Confucian headscarf, and looks elegant and graceful. Imagine, if this guy shaves his head and has a rat-tail braid behind his head, what would it look like?

It would be better to just shave your head with a rat-tail braid with money, which is much better than this Tartar hairstyle.

However, Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng did not say much, but instead clicked on their troops and went to war with Zuo Menggeng.

More than 200,000 Zuo's army was in a mighty state, giving up Wuchang and crossing the river to the north. Before leaving, Zuo Menggeng set off a fire and burned the once magnificent Ningnanbo Mansion completely.

Poor King Chu’s Mansion was burned by Zhang Xianzhong first, and then Zuo Liangyu repaired part of it, but before Zuo Menggeng left, he set off another fire, which completely burned the King Chu’s Mansion.

The Zuo family army crossed the Yangtze River and marched north along the hilly areas in southern Henan.

Yingzhou City, this abandoned city was renovated by the Ming New Army, the broken city walls were reinforced, and the houses in the city were also repaired by the Nanjing New Army. In the future, when the people who fled to famine come back, they can move in directly.

However, Zhao Peng did not build a battalion group outside Yingzhou because he was planning to fight with the Zuo Family Army instead of passive defense. If the battalion defense line was used to deal with the Zuo Family Army, how could he fight with the Qing army in the future? You should know that the combat effectiveness of the Zuo Family Army is not as good as the Shun Army, and the combat effectiveness of the Shun Army is not as good as the Qing army. The Zuo Family Army is two levels worse than the Qing army. If you can't even win the field battle with the Zuo Family Army, then don't say you can expel the Tartars and restore Yanjing. It's better to take your wife overseas as soon as possible.

A fast horse galloped into the city and stopped before reaching Zhao Peng's central army camp.

The guards at the door stopped Ye Bukou's cavalry, checked the waist card, and put him into the central army camp.

"Qi Zhui Zhongyong Bo, Zuo Menggeng has left Wuchang and is heading northward towards Henan!" Ye Bucheng reported.

The Zuo family army's every move could not escape Zhao Peng's surveillance. Fifty days ago, not long after Zuo Liangyugang's death, a plainclothes spy reported the situation to Zhao Peng.

As soon as Zuo Menggeng crossed the Yangtze River, the spy immediately sent the information to Yingzhou.

Now Zhao Peng's intelligence transmission system adopts the method of sending letters from flying pigeons. In fact, it is not only pigeons, eagles, and other birds of prey that can be used to deliver letters after training.

The method of sending letters by Fei Ge is prone to losing letters, so multiple pigeons must be released at the same time. However, multiple pigeons can be released at the same time, and another problem arises: the letters are easily fallen into the hands of the enemy. In order to solve this problem, Zhao Peng adopted a password communication method for sending letters by Fei Ge. Each letter sent by Fei Ge is written in rows of four groups of numbers, and each group of numbers represents a Chinese character. If the enemy seizes the letter and does not have a special codebook, it is impossible to decipher the content of the letter.
Chapter completed!